Watch: The Day the Dodgers Drafted Walker Buehler Out of Vanderbilt

That’s a happy Buehldog.

With so much turmoil surrounding this year’s first year player draft, a walk down memory lane be a nice change of pace. Moreover, it might show how important the draft is to these young players — early or even late round.

What a great moment. Not only for the player being drafted, but his teammates as well. And this is the type of moment that is being unfortunately torn away from so many kids — whether early or late round picks.

Back to Buehler once again, you now mostly know the rest of the story… Tommy John surgery — short minor league career — September 2017 callup — struggled — in the rotation by late April of 2018 and the rest is history.

Hopefully, this is a one time deal for the stripped-down draft. Let people chase their dream, Manfred!

Clint is the lead editor of Dodgers Nation, and a host and analyst on Dodgers Nation's own Blue Heaven podcast live stream.

He's been writing, blogging, and podcasting Dodgers since about 2008. He was there for Nomar, Greg Maddux, and Blake DeWitt, and he'll be there for Walker Buehler, Alex Verdugo, Dustin May, and any Dodgers of the future.